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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Go for the Gusto February 24-26, 2012 [View all]Demeter
(85,373 posts)7. With Sale, Phila. Reporters Fear Loss Of Integrity
http://www.npr.org/2012/02/24/147295946/with-sale-phila-reporters-fear-loss-of-integrity?ft=1&f=1001
Philadelphia's financially troubled newspapers the jointly owned Inquirer and Daily News may be sold for the fourth time in six years. Circulation and advertising are down. A new set of layoffs has been announced, and the papers' newsrooms are about to be combined with the news site Philly.com.
But reporters and editors there are outraged by something else: the actions of their own publisher to influence their coverage of the company's sale.
Publisher Greg Osberg, who is also the CEO of parent company Philadelphia Media Network, has this month killed two stories about the sale and cut elements of a third story. Meanwhile, the leading bid appears to come from a group of powerful figures who are frequent subjects of their reporting.
"There's a whole trust issue now," says Wendy Ruderman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. "We're terrified, just terrified, that we're going to step on more land mines and not be able to do our jobs. And then we're not journalists anymore. We're not."
TELL ME ABOUT IT! OUR FEATURE STORY THURSDAY WAS THE 4TH RABID SKUNK FOUND ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN....
Philadelphia's financially troubled newspapers the jointly owned Inquirer and Daily News may be sold for the fourth time in six years. Circulation and advertising are down. A new set of layoffs has been announced, and the papers' newsrooms are about to be combined with the news site Philly.com.
But reporters and editors there are outraged by something else: the actions of their own publisher to influence their coverage of the company's sale.
Publisher Greg Osberg, who is also the CEO of parent company Philadelphia Media Network, has this month killed two stories about the sale and cut elements of a third story. Meanwhile, the leading bid appears to come from a group of powerful figures who are frequent subjects of their reporting.
"There's a whole trust issue now," says Wendy Ruderman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News. "We're terrified, just terrified, that we're going to step on more land mines and not be able to do our jobs. And then we're not journalists anymore. We're not."
TELL ME ABOUT IT! OUR FEATURE STORY THURSDAY WAS THE 4TH RABID SKUNK FOUND ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN....
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I'm going to go cook for the Kid, before I get too inebriated (or depressed by the news)
Demeter
Feb 2012
#10
I'll Drink to That! Congratulations on your survival and wishes for a speedy recovery!
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Feb 2012
#34
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Feb 2012
#53
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Demeter
Feb 2012
#42
Schneiderman's sell-out has been among the more depressing developments lately ...
bread_and_roses
Feb 2012
#74
I wish that times was tomorrow. Tens of thousands of people in the streets......
Hotler
Feb 2012
#97